<p>Alright.
For me, my last semester went horribly mainly due to bad luck. I got a 2.88 GPA, and this was mainly due to parental illness (mom got a stroke), my own sickness (Cold, flu...etc, had to skip many classes), my loss of my camera (I am a photographer, not as a major but a hobby, and it was a nikon d80), and also towards the fact that I threw up on my midterm...which went horribly.
This semester is going SO much more better although, and I feel like I'm gonna get at the least a 3.57 GPA, but then again, we got to take into murphy's law and say a possibly a 3.27. I don't really have much an issue with that.
The only issue is I feel like i'm getting TOO competitive.
Now last semester my Girlfriend got a 3.62 GPA, but till then, I felt like I was competing with her. It felt like, I MUST DO BETTER than her and get a higher grade.
I know it sounds stupid, but it feels like all this grades talk and competition has just made me a bit too competitive.
It makes me feel bad because she's not doing so well this semester. So far she has higher grades than me in only one class but by only one + grade.
Am I just being a tad too competitive? Or is this perfectly fine?</p>
<p>why does it matter what grades your girlfriend gets?</p>
<p>As long as it doesn’t affect your relationships or make your life unnecessarily stressful, I think it’s fine to be as competitive as you would like to be. Heck, I studied a lot for the Putnam (a math competition) last semester because I wanted to do better than the star student of the department. And I did 
I am still friends with her and I still collaborate with her on homework. No big deal.</p>
<p>We all need something that keeps us motivated. If the ambition to do better than the people you are close to gets you through college successfully, good for you!</p>
<p>she is gonna leave you for a dude who has a bigger gpa</p>
<p>My personal opinion is that grades are no one’s business except your own. There is no reason your girlfriend needs to know your GPA.</p>
<p>Maybe you should sabotage your girlfriend’s essays. Then she will do worse than you and get a lower GPA! Then you will feel like a better person than she is, right?</p>
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proton wins the thread</p>